taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes:
> Alex Vong <alexvong1...@gmail.com> writes: > [...] > > The bug I introduced to guix pull (while speeding it up) that has a tiny > chance of causing a thread race related error has never been fixed. > Maybe it's related to that. > > As of e714797 I can't reproduce the error; guix pull runs fine to > completion. Possibly a commit after c41d97b "fixed" the issue again by > changing the order of autoloads or some such. But it could also be > related to the number of cores on my machine, how much you moved around > your pointer device recently, or the phase of the moon. :-\ > > If you still hit the error, or anyone else does, I'll get to work on it > ASAP. > Yes, commit e714797 'gnu: pdf: Remove erroneous module import.' seems to have fixed the issue again. Thanks for your attention. I don't know there is a potential race condition in guix-pull. I will keep this in mind. > Otherwise, I'm quite out of the loop but IIRC there was some talk of an > entirely different guix pull mechanism, that uses git pull or so? If > so and if this bug continues to trigger extremely rarely, then I'm not > sure if it would be worth the effort to make bigger changes to the > current 'guix pull' mechanism. > > Taylan > > > P.S.: Feel free to contact me on Freenode (nick 'taylan') if you want to > bypass email for quicker communication. Thanks, Alex